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year, so striking had been his success, Congress furnished funds, and with the assistance of some local business men, he appointed agents and began to organize a few counties in Texas. The work attracted attention and Congress enlarged its appropriation. In a few short years this work had covered the entire South, had a force of more than 1,000 agents, an enrollment of more than 100,000 farmers, 75,000 boys in the corn clubs, and 25,000 girls in the canning clubs. In the year before Dr. Knapp died, Russian, Brazile, England, South Africa and Argentine sent representatives to this country to study the demonstration work. Sir Horace Plunkett, the great Irish reformer, came for the same purpose, and at the request of the King of Siam, Dr. Knapp sent one of his agents to take charge of agricultural matters in that country.
Dr. Knapp was undoubtedly one of the first men in America to see the principle of the community movement as it relates to rural districts, and to make practical application of it, though he believed that the foundation work must be
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